I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!

HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS LAST CHAPTER.

"No! I wasn't able to make it in time. Sasuke had already left the school to pack for his flight to Australia." I thought troubled. "Now how will I ever get to tell him my true feelings?"

I was standing at his locker, hoping I could see him one more time before he left. I rested my clasped hands on my chest near my heart. I closed my eyes making believe he was here but nothing has changed. I pried my eyes open again and sighed. How I wished he didn't have to leave so soon.

"Hey Hinata!" I heard Tenten's

shout coming from behind me.

"Oh Tenten," I said uninterestedly. I didn't even bother to take notice of her though I could sense her standing beside me.

"Well…?"

"Well what?" I said startled.

"I heard you told him didn't you?"

"That blabbermouth Ino must have spread the news throughout the whole school. Damn her. Oh no I just cussed in my own thoughts!" Usually I never used such foul language even in my own mind about friends. But this was just really bad for the school to know. I wondered how Sakura would take it.

Tenten giggled lowly and said, "You don't need to worry. Ino only told me and Temari though I'm guessing that Temari probably told her other siblings. But either way your secret is safe with us."

I smiled in relief. I didn't see why I should be smiling at a time like this. Sasuke was gone and I didn't have the chance to tell him my feelings. It was quiet for a moment until we both heard a very hyper Sakura come towards us.

"Hinata!" she yelled. She was running down the hallway and stopped right before us. Once she came to a complete halt she panted heavily.

"Are…are you alright Sakura?" I asked her.

"Do…not… worry…!" she gasped. She took a couple of more deep breaths and to conclude her rash dilemma she jumped in the air, indicating she was fine. "I just heard the great news! Is it true that you have a crush on Sasuke-kun?"

"What?" I blushed. "I…ummm…I guess you can…umm… say that." It's actually been awhile since I last stuttered. The only time I did was when I had my first crush on Naruto. I need to forget about the past and think about how to contact Sasuke.

"You know I heard he isn't going to leave until Monday. My uncle explained everything to me," she continued.

Of course I already knew all the details. But she just kept on talking.

"I never thought you would actually fall for a guy like Sasuke-kun. Cause I mean now I've noticed he's so cold and aloof. But then again all the girls are crazy about him, why shouldn't you be? Ha now that makes you one of us! Luckily I already got over him. I finally have found myself a new lover. You should too. There are other better guys than Sasuk-kun ya know."

I ignored almost everything she was saying and then I just lost it and shouted, "For Pete's sake Sakura shut up! I already know everything, you don't need to rub my face in it! Sasuke is leaving and he'll never be coming back! I need to find a way to meet him before he departs from his original home! Now just shut up and let me think by myself for a moment!"

The three girls stood still motionless. "Hinata… I wasn't going to rub it in your face or anything. I wanted to help you," confessed Sakura.

"Help me…? How?" I asked now feelings completely embarrassed from what I just said.

"Simple, just talk to him."

"But I don't know where he lives."

"Call him. You know his phone number."

"Oh duh. I've called him before I remember that. I'm such an idiot! Why didn't I think of that before?"

"Oh yeah good idea Sakura," said Ino.

"S-Sakura, forgive me! I didn't mean to yell at you!" I cried. More tears dripped down my face. "I was just so frustrated and puzzled by all this." I directed my face towards the ground. I didn't want to see how mad she must be now. I know how she throws her anger tantrums and they would generally last for about 2 hours or so.

"It's okay, Hinata," I heard her say cheerfully. I lifted my face up and saw her smiling as well as Tenten and Ino. "We will all help you! For you to say goodbye to him personally."

"Goodbye? Right, goodbye. She was right. Because this is my final and only chance to tell him." I nodded.

I quickly thanked my friends and left the school running as fast as I could to home. I barged through the doorway searching for the telephone.

"Aack!" I yelled. "Where's the phone?"

"Hanabi is using it," answered Neji as he was entering the hallway. Somehow he made it home quicker and we went to the same school too. "Why are you home so late? Why didn't you just take the bus home?"

"Jeez another fluke. Why the hell did I run home when taking the bus is so much faster? I'm not thinking straight today." I sighed.

"Uhhh no time to explain, Neji. Where is Hanabi?"

"Up in her room."

I was just about to run upstairs then Neji stopped me saying, "Lord Hiashi wishes to speak with you. He told me that he needed to have a word with you right when you got back home."

"I can't Neji! I need to call someone! It's urgent!"

"He insists of speaking with you as soon as possible. He's your father and he'll scold you terribly if you don't visit him in his office at this instant."

I ignored him and headed into my sister's room. Hanging from her door was a sign with the words 'Knock First or I'll Knock You Out If You Don't!'. It was a very strange sign however I dared not to defy its full warning. So I knocked on her bedroom door.

"Come in!" she shouted on the other side of the door. I promptly opened the door and saw Hanabi laying upside down on her pink cushioned bed, talking on the phone. Her room was filled with all sorts of decorations from school equipment to frilly My Little Ponies. "What do you want, Hinata?" she asked while still overturned on her bed.

"Hanabi I need to use the phone. I have an important message for a friend," I advised her.

"Yeah well I'm busy too ya know. Now if you will be so kind and leave my room please. I, too, am having an important conversation."

"Hanabi please this is critical! You can have it right after I tell him something."

"Oh so it's a him is it?" she smirked. Then she lifted herself off the bed and hollered, "Daaaad! Hinata is secretly going out on a date with a total stranger you don't know anything about!"

"Aahhh! SShhh! No Hanabi don't! Please be quiet," I said while motioning her to keep still. "Don't tell father anything else about this! Please I'll do anything you say. Just don't tell father about this," I begged her.

"Do my homework for the rest of the term and I'll keep it a secret," she responded.

"What! This term won't end in another 2 whole months!"

"Exactly. As I said before I'm busy and I don't enjoy doing homework at all."

"And you think I'll have a blast doing it?"

"Duh, you're an old woman. Old people like to work."

"Old? I'm only a couple of years ahead of her and she acts if I'm like 40 or something."

"Do we have an agreement?" she asked.

"Err…uhh.. fine! But just this term!" We shook our hands keeping our ends of the deal. "I'll be taking the phone now."

"What? No!" she said in surprise.

"What do you mean no?" I argued.

"We agreed that I won't tell dad about your secret engagement. I didn't say you could have the phone."

"What a little brat! I can't believe her. I've been tricked! Damn it. Also, why the hell does there have to be only one phone that works perfectly in this entire house?"

"Hanabi I'm only gonna say this one last time. Give me the phone or else," I threatened.

"Or else what?" she said teasingly. "You don't have any dirt on me."

I stayed silent for a moment and promptly thought of an idea. "Oh but I do. I'll tell father about you know who about you know what of you know when."

"You…don't… mean," she stammered her words.

"Oh I do. I know all about you know who of you know exactly what!"

"Fine, fine, here take it I'm done with it anyways. Here!" she said while giving me the phone and dragging its cords. Then she shoved me out of her room and slammed the door shut.

"Ha my plan worked. I have no idea what she was thinking but whatever it was I have a hunch that it's not appropriate. Oh well I'll figure it out later. Now I have to call Sasuke."

I scurried to my room with the phone in my hands. I tripped over its cords only once but that didn't stop me. At last I made it to my room. I plugged in the cord and dialed in Sasuke's number. I sat at the edge of my bed listening intently to the ringing noise. It kept on ringing and ringing. It rang again and still no answer. It rang again but still no answer. Finally I heard a clicking sound.

"Sasuke! Sasuke are you there?" I said anxiously.

But what I heard in response was not Sasuke. It was a voice recording saying, 'the number you have reached is not longer in service.'

"Wh-what?" I whispered. Shoot was I too late? I called the same number again and got the same answer. I repeated over and over and it was still the same, 'the number you have reached is not longer in service'.

"Sasuke must have already disconnected the phone line services. I was too late! I wasted so much trying to get the phone from my bratty little sister."

I dropped the phone and began to cry into my pillow. "I was too late! Too little too late! I'll never see or talk to him again!"

Monday Morning

"Too late. I was too late," I thought over and over again in my head in regret. I called friends and nevertheless they had no idea where he lived either. It was like he existed yet he didn't. He is such a mystery. "Why haven't I noticed him before? Oh right cause I kept drooling over Naruto. I made a huge mistake! That was one of them, being Naruto's girlfriend. Now this is one."

I sauntered through the school's hallways, daydreaming in my own pitiful thoughts. Obviously I couldn't leave the school or else I'll get detention for the rest of the year and my father will punish me for life. A couple of light tears trickled from my face though no one could see me crying with my books covering my face.

"Hinata!" Sakura shouted in my face.

"Eeek!" I screeched in surprise and almost dropped my books. "S-Sakura? Where did you come from? Please don't jump out of random places like that." I caught my breath.

Then up popped Ino, Tenten, and Temari. "You are gonna love this!" said Ino excitedly.

"Yeah, yeah! Trust us this is sooo gonna help you and him!" said Tenten.

"I don't know how I got involved in this but I might as well help you out anyway. Oh and don't worry. I didn't tell anyone else about…him," maintained Temari who was not so thrilled concerned about this.

"Right but we can't say it now. We need to go to a place where no one will find us," informed Sakura. "To the secret hideout!"

Inside the Janitor's Closet

"This is your secret hideout?" I said sarcastically as I pushed away a mop to make room cause I was literally feeling squished.

"Hey it was late notice and I just thought of this plan this morning!" stated Sakura who wasn't so ecstatic about this either.. "You should at least be grateful that I actually elaborated a way for you to see Sasuke again. The odds of the plan are a total 100! Only if we do it precisely on time."

"Okay… so what's the plan?" I asked. I was really curious to what the heck she must've been thinking. However, the real question is will it work?

"Here it is," she said. She took out some kind of small black plastic rectangular device.

"What is that?"

"It's a cassette."

"What's a cassette?" I must be really stupid for asking all these questions.

"Let's just say it's like an Ipod for old people. My uncle is very old fashioned. He has tons of these little trinkets."

"So we're going to listen to old genres of music?"

The other girls laughed. "No, no, no," Ino intervened. "On this cassette is a voice recording of a fire alarm going off."

"Okay…? I still don't understand what we're going to do with it," I said in confusion.

"Well once you hear the whole thing you'll get it. It was all Sakura's idea. I guess she really is the smart one," added Temari.

"Thanks," Sakura responded annoyed. "But here's the idea. I'll put this in the cassette player, which I stole from my uncle, near the microphone you know the place where that damn Tobi keeps blabbering through the school's speakers. It'll sound like the school's fire alarm really went off. Everyone will be sent out of the school. That'll be your chance to escape the school grounds without getting caught."

"Sakura that's a great plan and all but I don't think I should leave... He's probably already gone." I said in dismay.

"Wrong-O!" Sakura pointed out. "My uncle received a call from Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, saying that they would be leaving here at 1:45 exactly from the airport!"

"Yeah and right now its…" said Ino checking her wristwatch. "Its 11:47. You still have time and an opportunity to reach him before his departing. Come on Hinata you don't want to put this plan to waste. It's in fact the only good idea Sakura has ever thought of."

"Take that back Ino-Pig! You're just jealous that I have a bigger brain than you!" yelled Sakura.

"Yeah and a bigger forehead too," Ino argued back as she stuck out her tongue.

"Grrrr."

"No stop! This is no time for fighting!" said Tenten splitting up the two. "Remember why we're here in the first place. To help Hinata. So what do you say?"

I reflected on the plan for a while. I wasn't too sure if it would work. There were still so many questions. But it's better to take a chance than none at all.

"Uhhh Hinata its fine that your taking your time and all but we only have about 25 seconds before Study Period is over," said Ino glancing at her watch.

Oh right! This was our Study Period and yet we were having a conversation in the girl's bathroom rather than studying. At that instant I replied, "When do we start?"

Out of Hinata's POV

At 12:15 In the School Hallway

"We have precisely an hour and a half before he leaves. Let's get this show on the road!" asserted Ino.

"I'll go inside," claimed Sakura. They were all scrunched down near the door that led inside the teacher's office.

"Wait why do you get to go!" exclaimed Ino.

"Because I'm the niece of the person who owns this school. Also I know my whereabouts in there."

"Then what do the rest of us do?"

"Umm now that I come to think of it, I don't know."

"So we skipped classes and followed you here for no reason?" questioned Temari.

"Well I need Hinata here, I know that. And for the rest of you I really don't know. I just felt like sharing my idea with the rest of you gals."

"Thanks a lot I'm so out of here then." She began to walk away.

"I agree. Good luck Hinata," said Tenten leaving with Temari.

"Ino you're gonna leave me too?" asked Hinata.

"Well there's nothing for me to do. So what's the point of staying?" she responded and left as well.

"Stay here Hinata. I'm going to sneak in, put the cassette in the cassette player near the microphone, and then come back out. Warn me if any teacher's are coming."

"Right," approved Hinata.

Hinata did as she was bid and luckily no teachers passed by. Shortly Sakura came out.

"Did you put the cassette in its place?" Hinata asked anxiously.

"Yeah…" she said in a dragged tone of voice.

"Is there something wrong?"

"Well… Tobi was in there too."

Hinata gasped. "You didn't tell him did you?"

"No way! Though I had to flirt my way to get passed him. It was actually easy since no other girls will go out with him or even talk to him."

"You mean…?"

"Yeah I agreed to go on a date with him just to put that stupid cassette in the cassette player."

"I'm so sorry Sakura. You didn't have to go through so much trouble just for me." Hinata sobered.

"It's okay. I'm willing to help a friend. But I'm not going out with him."

"But…"

"Sure I agreed to go on one date with him but I'll just explain to him that I'm going out with someone else. He'll understand and then forget all about me."

"Oh okay. When will the alarm…" Hinata was cut off by the loud siren of the fire alarm going off.

Soon screams could be heard in the hallways coming from all directions. The teachers told everyone not to panic and to leave the building in an orderly fashioned line. But no one listened to them and ran off screaming his or her heads off. It was evident they were all terrified but everyone made it outside. This was Hinata's chance to get going. She ran off and didn't have time to thank Sakura. Yes, her plan was a complete success.

Sakura, who was stuck in a crowd, was soon embraced in Naruto's arms.

"Sakura are you all right? You're not hurt in any way are you?" he asked worriedly.

"No I'm fine, Naruto. But I feel better now," she answered hugging Naruto back.

"Hinata I sure hope you make it in time." She thought. Suddenly her thoughts were corrupted by a cheerfully yet annoying voice.

"Hey Sakura!" it shouted. "Wait a minute! Hey you! Get your filthy hands off my girl buck-o!" It was Tobi rushing over to Sakura and Naruto.

"Oh no!"

"Sakura what is this idiot talking about?" asked Naruto curiously.

"It's a long story Naruto. I'll tell you later," she replied sighing.

Hinata's POV

I continued running. Running as if my life depended on it. I just had to see him one more time! I begged myself to run faster or for time to at least slow down. "Please let me make it!"

The airport was about 7 miles away. I wasn't a pro athlete so I knew I needed a ride to get there in time. At some point I called a cab and told the driver to take me to the airport as fast as possible. Fortunately there wasn't much traffic also we didn't hit too many red lights either. While inside I prayed for him to wait just a little while longer or for his plane to be delayed. At last I made it! I paid the driver with my lunch money, which really wasn't much, but it was no less than enough.

I entered the airport. Many people were either coming in or leaving the country carrying their entire luggage with them. The airport was huge. I had doubt that I wouldn't find him in time. But I would not give up. I checked the clock hanging from inside a small shop.

1:43

I still had 2 minutes left. But where should I start? I looked out for any sign of Sasuke so far I've found nothing. Then I heard over the speakers, "Would Mr. Uchiha please come to gate 14? Your plane will be departing now." It repeated itself. I knew I was quickly running out of time.

"Damn it where's the gate 14. I absolutely must see him!" I thought rashly.

I bumped into crowds of people and still no sign of Sasuke. I panicked. Soon enough I found myself looking out an immense-sized glass window and there I saw a plane with the number 14 on it. It was taking off into the air.

"NO Sasuke!" I shrieked. "I couldn't have missed him! No! Please stop! Sasuke I'm here!" I leaned my face and hands against the cold glass of the window. Tears shed down my face. "Sasuke I'm here! Turn the plane around! Please!" I collapsed on my knees, sliding my fingers down the large window. "Sasuke," I whispered.

"Hinata?" I heard my name being called from behind me. I slowly turned around and couldn't believe my eyes. It was Sasuke! He was still here and standing there in an overcoat and jeans. I also noticed he was carrying a suitcase.

I wiped the tears from my face and stood up. "Sasuke?" I repeated. "What…why are you still here? Your plane…I thought you…" I couldn't finish my sentences. He seemed to notice that and walked up to me. Right then he put his arms around me and stroked the top of my head.

"Hinata I'm glad to see you again. I didn't think you would actually come," he whispered tenderly.

"I had to see you again, Sasuke. I didn't want to leave without saying goodbye."

"What? No that's not what I really wanted to tell him."

He let go of me and stared into my eyes as I stared back. "Just to say goodbye?" he questioned unexpectedly.

"No!" I exclaimed. "I wanted…. I mean I really wanted…I…"

"Why can't I say it? Why can't I say it? Oh Sasuke I love you so much. I want to tell you so much. But why can't I?"

I began again, "Sasuke I…"

I wasn't about to stutter however that's what didn't stop me from saying it. I realized that Sasuke secured my lips with his. He was kissing me! My eyes widened and before I knew it I kissed him back. I shut my eyes gently to enjoy and savor this moment. I wished there was there was no tomorrow and time would just stand still. Though it was Sasuke who cut the kiss short.

He pushed my lightly away from him. I looked up at him and immediately blushed.

"What you heard over the intercom, they were talking about my older brother. The one he went on was full, as a result I was put on a different flight than his. Mine won't be taking off in another 3 minutes."

"Sasuke…I wanted to tell you this so much!" I cried out and felt more tears trickle down my cheeks. "Sasuke I love you!" I buried my face in my hands. "Please don't go. "I mumbled.

"Hinata I must leave. I'm sorry." I could hear him turn around and stagger away from me. Then he hesitated. "Hinata."

I dropped my hands to glance at him. He was smiling.

"Remember this. I love you and no matter where I go my heart will stay with you for always."

From that statement I smiled as well. Tears were still falling but they weren't all showing sadness. They were tears of happiness. He turned his back to me once again at that instant I darted after him.

"Hinata? I need to leave now," he said.

"Yes but I want to give you something to remember me by," I replied.

"You know I'll never forget you.

"I know, but I want to give you something extra." I put my hands above my head and untied my hair with my pink ribbon I mostly wore at school. I shook my hair loose and then I gave him my ribbon and placed it in his hand.

"Hinata? This is..." he began.

"This is what I want for you to have Sasuke."

"I'll treasure it always."

I saw him board the plane. He waved back at me as did I. I stood near the window and saw his place take flight. And there was only one thing I kept in my mind.

"Sasuke."

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Kato: Finished! I was thinking of making a sequel to this story. What do you think?

Cyndi: I think you should!

Kato: Get out of here Cyndi!

Cyndi: Not until you sing the FUN Song with me and Tobi.

Kato: Hell no!

Tobi: Come on. Pretty please?

Kato: Okay how about this. F is for get the Freakin way out of my house! U is for U guys are so annoying! N is for No more singing and leave me alone!

Cyndi: Aww your no fun. Sing it the right way!

Kato: If I do, does that mean you'll leave me alone now and forever besides in school?

Cyndi: Sure let's go with that.

Kato: Fine…

Kato, Cyndi, and Tobi sing the FUN Song and they all live happily ever after. Though Kato might be scarred for life for singing that song. Then again maybe not, who knows?